Hi,
I'm on MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014) OSx 10.11.5 El Capitan. I recently tried to cd to some folders which are definitely there and I get a no such file or directory. The folder has 18 subfolders but Terminal only lists 2 of them.
Thanks in advance
MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014), OS X El Capitan (10.11.5)
/Applications is completely different from /Users/username/Applications.
/Applications is where applications are normally stored and is available to all users on your Mac. /Applications is NOT in your home directory.
/User/username/Applications is seldom used and used only when an individual user has applications that is licensed only to them.
UNIX machines abhor spaces in file and folder names, as the Terminal will rudely point out. You must enclose those space delineated names with quotes before any of the UNIX commands will operate on them.
# Either of the following accommodate spaces in file/folder names. Blue text only.
$ cd "Folder with spaces in its name"
$ cd Folder\ with\ spaces\ in\ its\ name
Do the foldernames appear when you perform the following within the parent folder containing them, and do any show the word hidden?
# will show any file objects deliberately hidden with the chflags hidden filename command.
$ ls -lO
You can see the 18 folders in Finder, but not in Terminal is that correct?
Are any of the folders that you see in the Finder, but not in the Terminal, prefaced with a dot "."? That would make them invisible in the Terminal unless you used:
$ ls -al
Were you interested in the contents of the .drush folder?
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Hi again, thanks but I actually have all my hidden files set to be visible (the ones with . before the filename). All the subfolders that Terminal isn't listing are within Applications/MAMP/htdocs. The strange thing is that two of those folders are listed so why not all? Is this a known issue? I can't seem to find anything hunting on Google.
It has been over three years since I have used MAMP, and I suspect that you have a MAMP permissions/configuration issue. There may be a chroot issue in the htdocs folder that from a Terminal standpoint, won't let you see those other folders. I cannot help with MAMP as I do not have it installed.
Thanks @Duane - I used a different path and they all showed up. Previously I was doing
cd Applications/MAMP/htdocs and only 2 folders showed up
but then I did
cd /Applications/MAMP/htdocs and they all showed up
so could you explain this to me? When I type cd ~ in Terminal I am taken to my username home so I presumed that I don't need the first / before Applications. Many thanks for your help 🙂
By default, MAMP will install into /Applications, where other applications are installed.
The ~/Applications folder is in your login directory, and by default, is empty, save for a hidden .localized file. This folder is human appendix metaphor, and conceivably could be used for scripts, and other executables that only you want access to on a multi-user Mac. I have a ~/bin directory for that purpose as it is a decades old UNIX habit.
The /Applications folder is owned by root and group admin, while the ~/Applications folder is owned by you.
@VikingOSX many thanks. That explains alot to me. I didn't realise MAMP installs into /Applications by default or that was where other applications are installed. Thanks for the help and information. 🙂
Thanks @VikingOSX but the folder names don't have spaces in them. so I'm a bit stumped
Hi again, yes, I can see them in Finder but not Terminal. When following your suggestion it still only gave me the two folders from before and a hidden drush folder.
Are you certain that you are at the correct path?
For instance if you are looking at /User/username/Library in the Finder but /Library in Terminal?
Terminal not listing all folders in directory
